Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 13
In the other letter he says he is building a house and wants a “sah tool” which he will return when the work is done.
Who acts: Davis, sah tool · What happens: say, build, want, return, do · To what, where: other letter, house, sah tool, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Davis, sah tool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 letter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 letter | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 letter | amod |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 building | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 building | aux |
| 9 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 says | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 building | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wants | cc |
| 13 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tool | det |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tool | punct |
| 16 | sah | sah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tool | compound |
| 17 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wants | obj |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tool | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 return | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 return | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tool | parataxis |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 done | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 work | det |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 done | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 done | aux:pass |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 return | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Davis | the other letter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | build | present · progressive | Davis | a house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 3 | want | present | Davis not said here | a sah tool | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tool=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | future | a sah tool | Davis nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | present · passive | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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